Student & Alumni Stories
- Design & Visual Communication student creates label design for 2025 edition of Panther Pale AleMacy Franti, a senior in PSOA’s Design & Visual Communication BFA program, is the artist behind the design of this year’s Panther Pale Ale can. Created by Pilot Project Brewing and Craft Beverage Warehouse, Panther Pale Ale is an annual collaboration with Milwaukee Athletics and the Peck School of the Arts. This year marks the third consecutive year of the real-world design partnership.
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- MOWA Wisconsin Artist Biennial features several UWM faculty, students and alumniPeck School of the Arts is well represented at the Museum of Wisconsin Art’s (MOWA) 2026 Biennial. Artists with ties to PSOA include First Year Program lecturer and Studio Art MFA graduate Tanner MacArthur, Painting …
- Film alum’s senior film to be featured in Door County Film FestivalAlum Kiersten Hoff’s (BFA 2024, Film) senior film, Mindframe, is to be featured in the Door County Film Festival. Hoff’s film will screen in the Student Films category and will be showing February 12 at Fish Creek’s Northern Sky Gould Theatre. To read the full announcement, visit …
- UWM talent spotlighted on Bandcamp’s Best of 2025Assistant Professor Alex Wier and Associate Professor Jennifer Clippert (BFA 1999, Music Performance) are performers on “Voiceless Mass,” an album that made it onto Bandcamp’s Best of 2025 list in the Best of Contemporary Classical Music category.
- Film MFA alum receives 2026 Creative Capital AwardGillian Waldo (MFA, 2024) has been named a recipient of a 2026 Creative Capital Award. This year's awardees were selected from a pool of 4,546 applications from all 50 states and regions in the United …
- Vocal Performance alum Brian Manternach publishes first bookVocal Performance alum Brian Manternach (MM 1999, Music) celebrates the publication of his first book, “Voices of Influence: The Journey of a Teacher and Student in the Voice Studio,” with Bloomsbury Publishing.
- Great Lakes Listening Series issues call for submissionsPeck School of the Arts Department of Film, Video, Animation & New Genres is a partner on a new experimental film series called “The Great Lakes Listening Series,” which will be held at UWM’s Union …
- Theatre lecturer featured on Arts Educators Save the World podcastJeffery Mosser and his mentee, Mizha Lee Overn, were featured on Arts Educators Save the World, a podcast that highlights the experiences and achievements behind art educators and their mentees. On the podcast, Mosser and Overn discuss the …
- Sophomore music student wins multiple awards from the National Association of Teachers of SingingAkira Harris (Sophomore BFA, Versatile Voice) was awarded at the Wisconsin Chapter of the National Association of Teachers of Singing. Harris won first place for the Classical Music category and second in the Commercial Music …
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